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Mempool Purging and Rolling Minimum Fee

ops.mempool-purging

How a node raises its rolling minimum relay feerate under mempool pressure and evicts transactions below that threshold as the mempool is trimmed. This is local policy and eviction behavior, not consensus or fee estimation.

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Curated resources (4)

• Bitcoin Core Policy Documentation (article) Canonical explanation of mempool policy, minimum relay feerates, and eviction behavior.
• getmempoolinfo RPC (article) Shows the current mempool size, memory usage, and rolling minimum fee rate exposed by Bitcoin Core.
• Mempool.space FAQ (article) Operational view of mempool fullness, stuck transactions, and the purging fee rate shown by the explorer.
• Mastering Bitcoin (book) Background for mempool behavior, feerates, relay policy, and transaction confirmation tradeoffs.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Mempool Policy

Direct dependents (0)

• None

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